One of the world's oldest tour operators, Trafalgar was founded in 1947 as Trafalgar Tours. It is the cornerstone upon which The Travel Corporation, one of the largest multiple-brand travel companies in the world, was built.
Trafalgar was one of the inventors of escorted touring as we know it today. The company has dropped the word "tour" from its name and has redefined its central product as "guided vacations" instead of escorted tours. It's an updated version of the time-tested idea of people traveling together with professional guidance and saving money by combining their buying power on transportation expenses and lodging. But today's guided vacations are more experiential, more immersive, more active, more flexible and independent than their historical precedents.
Today Trafalgar offers more than 230 tours in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. In its more than 60 years of operating tours, Trafalgar has built up a complex global infrastructure of travel suppliers, transportation media, activities and attractions that the company uses to assemble itineraries that take clients to the iconic places of the world in comfort and give them the opportunities to experience them.
Through its buying power on a global scale, Trafalgar can offer its clients the opportunity to stay in four-star hotels on the same budget that would have allowed them only a three-star hotel if they were traveling on their own.
In recent years, Trafalgar has gone to great lengths to reinvent itself and wipe out public misconceptions about the tour experience. With its Insider Experiences on every trip, Trafalgar's guests are able to gain behind-the-scenes access they could not get on their own.
Trafalgar's vacations include First Class hotel accommodations, luxury transportation by motor coach, rail or cruise ship, outstanding cuisine, daily included sightseeing and optional excursions, both with expert local guides, and the personal concierge services of Trafalgar's Tour Directors, who share their insider's view and reveal hidden places not mentioned in guidebooks.
At the Agent@Home Travel Summits Sept. 15-18 in Long Beach, California and Sept. 29-Oct.2 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Trafalgar will be presenting the wide range of its products worldwide, including its new Americas brochure, which combines the previous USA/Canada brochure with the South America/Mexico/Costa Rica/Panama brochures. Trafalgar representatives will also be talking to agents about the company's efforts to work with agents to boost their groups businesses.
Agent@Home Travel Summits, the first of their kind, provide a forum where home-based travel agents, the readers of Agent@Home magazine, can network, learn how to improve their business, and discover more about travel industry products and services. Twin summits are scheduled in Long Beach, California, Sept. 15-18, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, Sept. 29-Oct. 2.
The summits bring Agent@Home, the only magazine that caters to home-based travel professionals and entrepreneurs, to life by offering extensive educational programming covering the top issues facing the travel agency trade today. Agent@Home is a sister publication to TravelPulse.com.
For more information or to register, click on Agent@Home Travel Summit. Travel suppliers interested in exhibiting and/or speaking at either event should contact show organizer Paul Muir at [email protected].
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